Well, the eBook Reader War continued yesterday with Amazon.com cutting the price of the Kindle from $139 to $114. The trade-off is that instead of classic writers appearing as the screen savers on the Kindle 3 there will be ads, so when you turn it off instead of Virginia Woolf appearing you may well get a Buick. So where are we now? Kindle is black and white and only $114. Barnes & Noble’s Nook is black and white and $139. Border’s Kobo is black and white and $139. Sony Reader is black and white and $179. Barnes & Noble’s Color...
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Working with The Fortsmouth Press on this, the last of my backlist to join the electronic literary landscape, has afforded me the opportunity to restore Just for the Summer to the way I originally wrote it. While the story of murder and mayhem in East Hampton is essentially the same, I have, for example, restored the original cast of characters in the front of the book which was cut by the publisher during the editing process.
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No. And, in the end, Presidents Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Bush II came to hold my view that RIF is just about the LAST non-profit that should be tampered with, because, they, too, came to discover that Reading is Fundamental is a paragon of what every non-profit charity receiving any government funds should be. Through a vast network of volunteers and professionals across America, RIF reaches at-risk and/or under-served children (with particular focus on children 8 and younger) and whatever caretaker they may have, to introduce reading as a part of everyday life at home. I was blessed by growing up in a...
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Wow, look at what surfaced here today! A cardboard placard from Doubleday to advertise the publication of WEST END on the busses and subways of New York. Banged up but proof positive of the anchorwoman’s appeal around town in the fall of 1989. As most of you know, I slightly altered the ending of WEST END for the electronic versions at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. I am pleased to report that the feedback has been very good and my next task is to see those slight alterations made in the next print edition. At any rate, I thought you...
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The six Sally Harrington mysteries are being republished in electronic formats these days and this seems as good a time as any to talk about the model for Sally’s hometown of Castleford. Exposé (first Sally Harrington mystery, and book #5 in “The Alexandra Chronicles”), was the first novel I wrote which opens in “normal America,” that is to say, in a small American post-industrial city called Castleford in Connecticut, inspired by the real-life Meriden, where I own a home. Meriden is the first normal place in America I’ve lived. I grew up in Darien, Connecticut, a town which made its literary debut in...
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(photograph by Paula Pothen) * The last message I received from Nancy Levin before she died read, “Was thinking about you as our industry (now includes tech) is all embroiled over Kindle. Is it helping writers?” Today the Kindle edition came out of my 1995 novel, Any Given Moment, a book which was dedicated to Nancy. Nancy died this past summer in an accident, an event which stunned everyone who knew her because—well, Nancy was a life force unto herself, commanding an extraordinary personal power that prompted changes for the better in the lives of everyone who...
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